CFP: [International] CFP

Once again Flinders Humanities Research Centre, Flinders University willbe hosting a conference at Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island, South Australia.The Conference will be held in the Seafront Hotel from Monday 7 toWednesday 9 December 2009. The conference theme is:

"The Shadow of the Precursor"Many writers are affected by an anxious and ambiguous relationship withprecursor writers. The role that influence and intertextuality plays inliterary production invites interrogation, and this conference hopes toexplore the range of conscious and unconscious influences informingrelations between writers and their precursors. We call for papers thatrevolve around intertextual influence, ranging across the spectrum fromconscious imitation and intentional allusion to Julia Kristeva's idea ofintertextuality. Do all texts contain references to and even quotationsfrom other texts? Do such references help shape how we read? Papers onthe long shadows cast by the likes of Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes, SirWalter Scott, Jack Kerouac and Bob Dylan, as well as papers on otherwriters, dramatists and filmmakers and their relationships withprecursors, are encouraged.

We look forward to receiving your expressions of interest by 31 Januaryand a 300-word abstract by 28 February and meeting you on Kangaroo Islandin December 2009.

Given our experience of organising seven highly successfulinternational/national conferences in the past eight years (Home and Away8-10 November 2000; Encounters 2001 9-12 December 2001; Diasporas 8-11December 2002; Writing London 8-10 December 2003; Journeying andJournalling 6-8 December 2004; Something Rich and Strange 12-14 December2005, all held in Kangaroo Island, and Moving Cultures, ShiftingIdentities: a conference about migration, connection, heritage andcultural memory 3-6 December 2007 at Flinders University), we canconfidently predict that our conference will attract about 60participants, including a significant number of postgraduate studentsfrom Flinders and elsewhere.

We also plan to referee, select and edit papers for book publication (asis our custom). We anticipate that up to about 20% of the presentedpapers will be by Flinders staff and higher degree students.Incidentally, the past six conferences have resulted in six books: Alas,for the Pelicans! Flinders, Baudin and Beyond (Adelaide: Wakefield Press,2002, pp. 221), The Regenerative Spirit Volume 1: Polarities of Home andAway, Encounters and Diasporas, in Post Colonial Literatures (Adelaide:Lythrum Press, 2004, pp. 220), The Regenerative Spirit Volume 2: (Un)settling, (Dis)locations, (Post-)colonial, (Re)Presentations AustralianPost-Colonial Reflections (Adelaide: Lythrum Press, 2004, pp.304), Londonwas Full of Rooms (Adelaide: Lythrum Press, 2006, pp. 268), SomethingRich and Strange (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, IN Press), Journeying andJournalling (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, IN Press), as well as variousindividual publications currently being edited from the Moving Culturesconference.

As soon as we can we will upload information about the conference,registration form, hotel and other accommodation, Sealink bookings,conference events, side trips etc. at http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/

For further information please contact nena.bierbaum_at_flinders.edu.au